On Oct 27, 6:21 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote:
> But then I think of Eclipse/Netbeans and I wonder. Could you write
> those in say, Javascript w/Canvas (thinking Bespin), dash of platform
> specific C++ for bottlenecks?

Yes.

> Or maybe in Adobe Air?

As dead as java desktop is.

> What does the future really hold for Java on the desktop? A rebirth, a
> slow death, ???
>

Was it ever born, then? It's always been a dream, it never came true,
and now it never will. Shame, but, worse things have happened.

In the mean time, in user-hours, the vast majority of applications run
on java. I'm considering the web as applications too, and I count it
as "written in java" if the backend involved significant amounts of
java. So, in that sense, "desktop" java is #1, has been for years, and
will be for years to come.

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